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E.M. Linden

@emlinden.bsky.social
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Nebula-nominated writer from Aotearoa NZ. Caffeinated. Words in Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, PodCastle, Kaleidotrope, The Dark, Flash Fiction Online, ECO24 & elsewhere

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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 11h
We are $600 away from halfway there. If you can share, thank you. I got moved to rehab four days ago, and I'm learning to walk again. 🖤
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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New speculative poetry recs from Angela Liu in MicroVerse! Angela collected some gorgeous poems for you - check ‘em out! @angelaliu.bsky.social
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Special Issue * Poetry Recs from Angela Liu
Welcome to this special guest-edited issue, featuring poetry recommendations by Angela Liu! I fell in love with Angela’s short stories several years ago with a double-whammy of her amazing work— &#…
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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Our next paranormal noir story is a katabasis in flash. Check out “下楼 – Next Floor” by Crystal Leung, now available on FFO #flashfiction #horror #writingcommunity #noir flashfictiononline.com/issues/octob...
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October 2026 - Flash Fiction Online
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Christopher Blake @chrisblake.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nice! My story, “In Every Seed, a Hope” from @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social was named as a recommended read in Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction Volume 4. This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful @ourmankoto.bsky.social showcases Canadian SFF! Excited to read the great stories in vol. 4!
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In Every Seed, A Hope
Would you be the seed of your child's future?
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Her crew and passengers are haunted too. She’s not sure when the massacre happened, maybe generations ago. But they know something’s missing. There’s a puzzlement in their folk memories. A glitch, like hers. A phantom limb." Stunning @emlinden.bsky.social www.orions-belt.net/archives/gho...
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Ghost Data — Orion's Belt
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 04/08/2026
Y'all! trade reviews are starting to come in and THE FIST OF MEMORY got a STARRED review in Publishers Weekly calling it an "expertly executed epic". As a writer its one thing to craft something you think is special and unique, another for others to agree. 🙏🏾⭐ www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7564-1...
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Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fiction ft. "Ghost Data" by E.M. Linden @emlinden.bsky.social "All is in order. Except for the glitch, hidden within her. The memory. Ghost data, gone and not gone." Read it here: tinyurl.com/ghostdata-li...
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Ghost Data — Orion's Belt
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 08/10/2026
The Deadlands is an excellent magazine of dark fiction and poetry, and editor E. Catherine Tobler makes it incredible. Let's help her out in this needful time. www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...
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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey
hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 08/10/2026
Please do chip in to support an excellent writer and human who is going through it
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 07/10/2026
Elise is dealing with some really tough things right now. She's a good friend and a fabulous editor and author. If you can help, every little bit counts.
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Elise Tobler, editor of the fabled SHIMMER magazine and now THE DEADLANDS is hospitalized after cancer and an infection. She made SFF an inclusive, interesting place and broke out many authors. Help if u can gofund.me/6ea1bf7a4
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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey
hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Elise does so, so much for us as a writer, an editor, and a member of our community. Let's do something for her, shall we?
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E.M. Linden @emlinden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New story out now in Orion's Belt!
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Tanvir Ahmed @tanawir.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The perfect season to go on a jaunt with some lonely monsters tearing up the highlands (and to tear a little into the megalith's profits, too)
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The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away
One evening at summer's end, in a town where nomads and caravans prepare to cross the mountains, the day laborer Sado meets a young woman with a painfully familiar tattoo at the corner of her eye. The...
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR could always do with more readers. It's a tale about growing up in Calcutta in the 90s/00s, in a family that may be members of a diaspora from another reality, in a house that may be a dragons' nest. British Fantasy & Subjective Chaos Kind of Award-winner.
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The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar eBook
Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing limited editions and groundbreaking original works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
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Daniel Ausema @danielausema.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I loved this story! It has a fabulist touch and is beautifully told--definitely check it out:
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 07/10/2026
this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word
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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 07/10/2026
get in, we're raising funds for Elise
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lightpseed & Nightmare are at $36,135 out of their $50,000 goal!
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LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror
We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you to the Simon & Schuster Art Department for this beautiful cover for Something Followed Us Home. Something Followed Us Home is available now in English and Spanish in the United States. Cover Design by Luis Tinoco Art Direction by Kelli McAdams Primero Sueño Press
Cover for anthology something followed us home, black background with eyes, flowers, crystals, and skulls
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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My interview in the new issue of @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social is now free-to-read! I talk about my story "Brainstem Disco, 2191," how I write flash vs. poetry, and thinking in multiple languages. www.orions-belt.net/archives/int...
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Interview with Angela Liu — Orion's Belt
by Linlang Zhao
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Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our summer issue #36 is now online and free to read on our website!! Please have a read of these incredible stories, poems & interviews and help us share them! To read: tinyurl.com/OB-issue36 To get the PDF/ebook: ko-fi.com/s/95de821dd4 To subscribe to OB 🧡: bit.ly/orionsbelt-p...
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36: Summer 2026 — Orion's Belt
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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Had a really great time chatting (and chatting, and chatting some more) with Casella about the Le Guin Prize shortlist. Honestly I could easily have gone on longer; it’s a list with a lot to discuss, in a great way.
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Angela Slatter 📚 @angelaslatter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, hai! Rest of World, my novella Fitcher's Bird comes out tomorrow! Australia, you've got another week to wait, sorry! And if the words "beautiful", "bleak" and "violent" don't sell you, then honestly I just don't know what's wrong with y'all! 🤣
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Finally, the #2026IgnyteAwards Community Award recognizes Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre Congratulations @strangehorizons.bsky.social who also won the inaugural award in this category in 2020.
2026 Ignyte Community Award winner: Strange Horizons
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E.M. Linden @emlinden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Congratulations!
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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Guys, I’m speechless. Gonna be sharing this award with my 8-year-old since this poem was inspired by their question “why do we never see fireflies in the winter?” Huge thanks to the Ignyte organizers, all the voters/readers, and to @thedeadlands.com for giving this one a wonderful home!
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
💚💚💚 So delighted, and a warm congratulations to all other winners and nominees. Thank you also to Alter Mag for commissioning a long-form essay on the history of Indian SF as the debut piece in their magazine. It’s available to read for free here: altermag.com/articles/the...
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The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
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Angela Hsieh @hisiheyah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A little over a day left to make this book a reality!
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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
WESTERN??? oh im so 👁️👁️👁️👁️
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E.M. Linden @emlinden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@hisiheyah.bsky.social's artwork is amazing and I'm so excited to see what she comes up with! Support the kickstarter for Heavy Are the Years if you like chocolate, 100% human artists and writers, incredible artwork, and stories that make you cry. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...
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Heavy Are The Years Story Collection
Three illustrated SFF novellas in one collection exploring the theme of time and how it affects us.
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 02/10/2026
My short fiction review in the October issue of Locus Magazine includes fiction from Fiyah, Small Wonders, Flash Fiction Online, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, Kaleidotrope, GigaNotoSaurus & Strange Horizons. subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...
Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. The October 2026 Locus magazine, Issue #789, has interviews with Stephen King, Tananarive Due, and Paul Tremblay. The issue includes a feature on horror with spotlights by K. Ancrum, K-Ming Chang, Ellen Datlow, Christopher Golden, Micaiah Johnson, Keith Rosson, and Lisa Wood; commentary by Maurice Broaddus & Dr. Chesya Burke, Cassandra Khaw, and Lisa Wood; and a review by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro. LAcon V, Worldcon 2026 is covered with an extensive report and photos, the Hugo voting breakdown, and a WSFS business meeting report.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
THE POISON PALACE: unfolds the era of Alexander the Great's conquering rampage across Eurasia with a graceful, fiery verisimilitude both intimate & mythic...from the Indian subcontinent & stretching all the way to ancient Babylon--it resounds in time, & sings to the present with a singular voice.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A TYRANT IN THE CRACKS:
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OUR CUT OF SALT: This is a ghost story haunted by a reality where justice and freedom feel as fantastical as the lingering spirits of the dead, speaking powerfully with and for those denied the same.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kuzhali Manickavel's A Compendium...is as fun--& funny--a book about the tragedy of growing up poor & a woman in India as you're likely to read, fishing bright, barbed new folklores & horrors out of the roiling ocean of hopelessness that threatens to drown the life of a small-town Indian schoolgirl.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A few excellent books I've had the opportunity to read & blurb: THE POISON PALACE by @thresholdrose.bsky.social, OUR CUT OF SALT by @deenahelm.bsky.social, A TYRANT IN THE CRACKS by @hachepueyo.bsky.social, A COMPENDIUM OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES FOUND...&c by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social +🧵
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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter has hit 24% of our initial funding goal! What a great first day! I'm heading to bed, but thank you all for the support! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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Apex Magazine 2027
An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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Plangdi Neple @plangdi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pub day! I'm so glad that Nameless Saviors is now available to read at @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social What if you could save a country that would rather kill you than admit its problems? It has government corruption, drunk shenanigans, and final year stress 😌. www.tractorbeam.earth/story/namele...
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Nameless Saviors | Tractor Beam
Uncle, why does our house always smell bad?
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Hannah Colbert @tanglepretty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today's SFF story: The Somnambulist by @mckatie.bsky.social. “I knew you’d be here,” he says. Something troubled and uncertain distorts his schoolboy vowels. “I had a dream about it.” I love bogs and mysteries and main characters who are in way over their heads. www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
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3LBE Magazine - The Somnambulist by Katie McIvor
It was supposed to be a simple job. I fly into Edinburgh and get the gun from a contact in the Grassmarket. All smooth. I check into my hotel near the mark's flat and spend a couple hours scoping out ...
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 30/09/2026
This week's It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton is a sweet, queer story about that awkward, tentative, uncertain time when, maybe, something is different, something is changing, something is awakening, and it all feels like a smear of toothpaste.
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New Storytime: Toothpaste Feelings by Sharang Biswas
This week’s It’s Storytime With Wil Wheaton is a sweet, queer story about … well, here’s how I introduced it: Have you ever known someone who went away for some reason, and came back so fundamentally changed, it’s like they picked up an alien parasite along the way that took...
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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have a story in this occult anthology! @pspublish.bsky.social 😍
Through A Glass Darkly by Preston Grassman &Chris Kelso (eds)
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foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No promos from us for #litmagweek, instead, I'd like to point you all to the magazines I ~~am most jealous of~~ admire the most. I'm sure you know them already, but go give them your money:
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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 29/09/2026
🤘 KICK IT 🤘 The Bird of the Year is the Black Robin/Karure, coming in like a tiny wrecking ball to smash the competition. Thread Project premium screenprinted tees in unisex and fitted sizes S-5XL. Pre-order this tee NOW: pepperraccoon.com #birds #boty #kikorangi
A detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.A flatlay of green t-shirts, featuring a detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.
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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know who just turned 1? 👀🦊🧡
A happy birthday graphic for Marty’s book, audition for the Fox, that came out a year ago!
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Honored to see ”A Game of Go” included on this list of stories enjoyed by @marissalingen.bsky.social, especially considering the other titles mentioned here. It means a lot to see this story resonate with so many people. marissalingen.com/blog/?p=4465 @adventitiouswords.bsky.social
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Short things I’ve liked, third quarter 2026 – Novel Gazing Redux
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Bonedust Press @bonedustpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Angela Hsieh @hisiheyah.bsky.social absolutely flexing those illustrative muscles with this incredible spread! Concept art for "Flight patterns of the Dead" by E.M. Linden @emlinden.bsky.social where a young mother is willing to bargain with strange spirits to escape death & reunite with her baby.
Concept art by Angela Hsieh showing a woman with long dark hair approaching a glass booth filled with strange smoke0like figures in uniforms with glowing points for eyes, mouths not where they should be, and tentacles tapping at the glass.
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The Sunday Morning Transport @morningtransport.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Sunday Morning Transport passes the gates today with a story from Betsy Aoki (@betsyaoki.bsky.social) that details a carefully executed plan and its surprises. Read a sample or subscribe for the whole story!
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If You Must Leave the City
The Sunday Morning Transport welcomes Betsy Aoki this week!
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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I had a sick 5yo yesterday so I am late to posting, but I am SO excited and grateful to have my latest flash story "12 Things I Wished Happened at the Louvre Heist" publish in @trampset.bsky.social! It's now up and free to read!
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Christopher Blake @chrisblake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As a parent, @cornellwriter.bsky.social ’s latest story, A Game of Go, in @adventitiouswords.bsky.social resonated so powerfully with me. It’s a beautiful articulation of love and devotion in every form of parenthood.
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